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title: "Komal Pal - Senior Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Komal Pal, Senior SDE |Top 0.1% SDE Mentor featured @timessquarenyc |YT 3.53k |Agentic AI | Hybrid Data Management & AI | Cloud SaaS|Top 4% @leetcode |OS contributer |300k+ post impression| Sharing real world tech experiences based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, code..."
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# Komal Pal on Tal

## Headline

Senior SDE \|Top 0\.1% SDE Mentor featured @timessquarenyc \|YT 3\.53k \|Agentic AI \| Hybrid Data Management & AI \| Cloud SaaS\|Top 4% @leetcode \|OS contributer \|300k\+ post impression\| Sharing real world tech experiences

## About

I'm a young enthusiast who is naturally curious about whatsoever surrounds her\. If I have to describe the work ethic with a single phrase, that would be, ostinato rigore, the Italian phrase which loosely translates to relentless rigor\. I have been into 📌𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 for about 6 months 📌𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 for 1 year 📌𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 for 6 months 📌𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 since April 2020\. I solved 2\.5k\+ problems on different platforms like Leetcode, HackerRank, Geeksforgeek, Codechef, Codeforces, Spoj etc 📌 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭\(𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬\) domain Sep 21 \-July 23 📌 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 domain Aug 23\- Dec 24 📌 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 & 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 domain since Dec 24 During my college year, 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞, 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭 which is reflected in my internships and open source contribution\. Experienced in as 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐏𝐎 𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 at World Quant Alpha VRC \(US Based Fintech Company\), 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 engineer at Ever Code\+\( App Dev Company\) Being a Tier 3 College Student, in 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 I have given 3𝟎\+ 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭\-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞,𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧, 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐔𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧, 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, ,𝐃𝐄 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐰, 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐞,𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 etc I have contributed to 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 for companies: \- 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰, \(As part of Microsoft Opensource Program\) \- 𝐘𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭\( As part of Outreachy and Dell\) \- 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 & 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 I have been 𝐒IH evaluator 𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐛: https://github\.com/Komal7209 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐟: https://www\.codechef\.com/users/kp0702 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: https://codeforces\.com/profile/KP7299 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: https://twitter\.com/Komal\_\_Pal 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨: https://komal7209\.github\.io/MyPortfolio/ 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦: https://medium\.com/@komalpal Tech Community Contributed: https://youtube\.com/@KomalPal

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

codex

deepseek

elevenlabs

github copilot

opencode

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at IBM, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Part of IBM's product vertical \( India Software Labs \) Engineered IBM Db2 SaaS, IBM Netezza SaaS on Azure, AWS and IBM Cloud which provides independent scaling of compute and storage, high availability with multiple nodes supporting customer's applications and durability through automated backups and point\-in\-time recovery\. Opensource contribution: Delivered new features to the open\-source Terraform Provider, including CRUD APIs for Users and Allowed IP Lists\. These contributions strengthened access security and streamlined infrastructure automation for a global community of 10K\+ Terraform practitioners\.

Tech Content Creator at YouTube, Jul 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 2 mos, Creating YouTube videos for tech :\) This is my small contribution towards tech community\. I have uploaded videos for Leetcode Daily Challenges, Leetcode Weekly and Biweekly Contest , Interviewbit Videos\. Presently, I've uploaded Blind 75 videos Next, I would be targeting the Grind 175 video :\) I inspire people to stay consistent in their interview preparation and dont stop until you crack your dream company\. I have guided 1000s of students to reach their dream company\. \- 3\.5k subscribers on youtube \- 15k views at max till now for the podcast uploaded on youtube\. \- 1\.3k strong whatsapp community

SDE 2 \(i6\) at Dell Technologies, Aug 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on File System pillar for backup of assets at file level in\-turn building Power Protect Datamanager\. As a C/C\+\+ developer for a file system backup agent, I contributed across multiple core areas of the product\. Worked on High level Design and Low Level Design of converting existing codebase to restclient and restserver model for integration of other product with the same\. My efforts significantly improved the product’s scalability, interoperability, and maintainability by introducing a standardized REST client–server architecture, enabling smoother integration with other systems and clearer service boundaries\. Worked on RCAs on multiple issues and identified fixes, various techdebts, escalations\. Knocked off 66 Blocker, 95 Major, Minor sonarqube issues in context to bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities\.This Improved the product’s stability, maintainability, and security by resolving 160\+ SonarQube issues, significantly reducing technical debt and enhancing code quality\. Improved product performance, security, and maintainability by migrating the entire C\+\+ codebase to Visual Studio 2022, enabling modern C\+\+ standards and future\-proofing the build toolchain

Software Engineer \(i5\) at Dell Technologies, Sep 2021 \- Aug 2023 · 2 yrs, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, As a member of Dell's ISM team, I specialize in building iDRAC through the iDRAC Service Module\. My work spans a variety of operating systems, including Linux \(Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse\), Windows, and ESXi\. I have also worked on the YoctoProject and Redfish Framework, and I am proud to have contributed to the YoctoProject open\-source repository\. Adding features, fixing bugs\.Ownership of end to end feature from designing to implementation to testing\. In addition, I have experience working with tools such as Docker and Kubernetes\. One of my proudest achievements has been my work on a machine learning model based on NLP using PyTorch, which I developed as part of a patent application and now that patent has been authorised\. One of my main tasks has been building C APIs to fetch and display telemetry data on the iDRAC webserver or CLI tool\.As part of this work, I added telemetry metrics for Linux \(RHEL, Sles, Ubuntu, Debian\) and Microsoft Windows\. Worked on HLD and LLD of telemetry feature Another notable accomplishment was adding iSM support for various operating systems, including ubuntu22, debian 11, Rhel 8\.6 RTOS, Rhel 9 RTOs, Esxi9 u1, and Esxi 7 u3\. To ensure high\-quality code, I have utilized tools such as Valgrind, Checkmarx, GNU Cmake\. Recently, I have expanded my skills to include microservices development in Golang and have completed several assigned proof\-of\-concepts\. That included connecting several microservices with the main microservice , so that all can work independently on different servers After a temporary team change\(on need\-basis of org\) to SNOWCIQ i\. e the second project on which I have worked\. There worked on microservices with Java, PostgreSQL, and Springboot, accompanied by ServiceNow and Javascript as a frontend and Dell CloudIQ for all cmdb users Overall, I am a dedicated team player with a passion for coding from scratch and using my skills to develop innovative solutions for my team and the wider industry\.

Microsoft Azure ML Scholar at Microsoft, Jul 2020 \- Oct 2020 · 4 mos, Selected out of about 10,000 people all across the world for the 1st phase of this scholarship\. Consisted of ML concepts based on application of Microsoft Azure Platform

Build For Digital India Program at Google, Nov 2019 \- Jun 2020 · 8 mos, Being selected in the first\-ever cohort by Google India and brainstorming for ideation to execution\. It's an initiative by Google and the Government of India, for students \(grad\. or masters or Ph\.D\. purs\.\) to work on various projects under Google in collaboration with the Digital India program\. It's a 2 months program in which all the selected candidates will get enrich resources and mentorship from Google directly\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

AISSE\(CBSE\) and AIHSE\(CBSE\), PCME, Carnatic Music, Computer Science, Shri Ram Ashram Public School,Asr

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/komal7209
- medium: https://medium\.com/@komalpal
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/techwithkomal
- youtube\.com: https://youtube\.com/@techwithkomal

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